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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics honors research on the theory and reality of black holes. Half goes to the famous mathematician and book author Roger Penrose, the other half to the astrophysicist Reinhard Genzel and the astronomer Andrea Ghez.
Finally, the Nobel Prize in Physics will once again be awarded to a man known by name to laymen interested in physics! Partly also from controversial books: Roger Penrose, who received half of this year’s award, a British gentleman and a spider at the same time, speculated in 1994 in “Shadow of the Spirit” on the physics of consciousness, and this in certain cellular structures (microtubules) located. He has been very uneasy about it, despite all the respect he enjoys from his colleagues.
His attempts to unite quantum theory and relativity theory, the two great, hitherto irreconcilable theories of the 20th century, into a theory of quantum gravity, without quirks like Schrödinger’s cat, were not approved by all. And much less by physicists who come from quantum theory. Penrose himself comes, like Stephen Hawking, from the theory of relativity. More precisely: from the general theory of relativity, from the mathematically immensely complicated theory presented by Albert Einstein in 1915, which explains gravity as the curvature of space-time.
